Edouard Vallet
Édouard Vallet (born January 12, 1876 in Geneva ; died May 1, 1929 in Cressy, municipality of Confignon ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.
Life
Édouard Vallet attended boarding school in France and began an apprenticeship with a stonemason in 1892. For three and a half years he attended a woodcut course with Alfred Martin at the Geneva School of Applied Arts . He was also a student at the Geneva art school with Barthélemy Menn . He went on study trips to the Dauphiné , Germany and Italy.
In 1899 he had his first exhibition. He was mentioned at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 . In 1909 he was represented in the Swiss section at the Tenth International Art Exhibition in Munich . From 1908 he stayed repeatedly in various municipalities in Valais, Savièse , Ayent , Hérémence , Vercorin and Sion , and lived in Valais from 1910 . Vallet painted rural life in the Valais and its mountains and is known as the “painter of Valais”. Vallet also painted a number of self-portraits.
He was married since 1912 to the painter Marguerite Gilliard , a daughter of the painter Eugène Gilliard (1861-1921), who died in 1918, and since 1920 with Marie Jollien (1886-1951). Vallet is buried in the Confignon commune cemetery.
Vallet is represented in most Swiss museums. A collection is set up in the Musée d'art du Valais in Sion. In 2006, the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny presented an exhibition entitled L'art d'un regard . In 2013, an excerpt from his drawings was shown at the Solothurn Art Museum from his holdings .
literature
- Johannes Widmer: Édouard Vallet. In: Switzerland - Illustrated Moatsschrift. Volume 24, 1920, pp. 391-397 ( e-periodica.ch ).
- Vallet, Edouard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 81 .
- Bernard Wyder, Jacques Dominique Rouiller: Catalog raisonné de l'œuvre peint d'Edouard Vallet. Patrick Cramer, Geneva 2006.
- Antonia Nessi: Edouard Vallet, dessins, drawings. Benteli, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7165-1749-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Édouard Vallet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Édouard Vallet (French, official site)
- Édouard Vallet , at Walliser Kantonalbank
- Bernard Wyder: Vallet, Edouard-Eugène-Francis. In: Sikart
- Edouard (Eugène François) Vallet on artnet
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Grove Dictionary of Art . Volume 31, 1996, p. 828.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vallet, Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1929 |
| Place of death | Cressy, municipality of Confignon |